WASHINGTON – Legislation requiring law enforcement to report to the federal government any deaths of people in its custody cleared the Senate late last night and will now be sent to the President to be signed into law. The bill passed the House of Representatives on Dec. 12, 2013. Grassley is Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee which...
Washington, D.C. – Today U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) introduced the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2014 (JJDPA), which updates and strengthens protections for young people in our criminal justice system and reauthorizes funding for key juvenile justice programs. The JJDPA has not been...
Floor Speech of Senator Chuck Grassley on Tax ExtendersDelivered Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014
This week, the Senate is finally poised to take up and pass a tax extenders bill. Congress’ procrastination on tax extenders has been causing a lot of headaches and indigestion for many of my constituents back home. Small business owners and farmers want to know...
Here is information about Senator Grassley’s schedule this week. The Senate is in session.
Senator Grassley will meet with Iowans in Washington, D.C., from the National Conference of State Legislatures, Iowa Community Development, and the Outreach Program.
Senator Grassley will be a guest on public affairs programs hosted by Greg Haubrich and...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on Senate passage last night of a bipartisan, bicameral bill to terminate Social Security benefits for suspected Nazi persecutors. Grassley is a sponsor of the Senate version of the bill, the No Social Security for Nazis Act. The Senate passage clears the bill for the President’s...
In September, Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Rand Paul wrote to the National Science Foundation and the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) to express concern over NEON’s spending of federal funds on parties, alcohol and lobbying and the National Science Foundation’s apparent sanction of that spending. The spending on highly questionable “management...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa has received the first-ever Grandfamilies Champion Award from the advocacy group Generations United for his work to support grandparents raising their grandchildren. Helping to present the award was a West Des Moines woman who has informed congressional policy work through her own example. “It’s an...
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Prepared Floor Statement of Senator Chuck Grassley of IowaUnited States SenateZero Dark Thirty ReportThursday, December 4, 2014
Mr. President, I come to the floor today to talk about Zero Dark Thirty – not the movie but a report on the movie. The report was supposed to tell us how the movie’s producers obtained top...
Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and likely incoming Chairman, made the following statement after meeting with Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch.
“This was the first time I’d had the opportunity to meet Ms. Lynch. We had a very nice conversation that focused on my priorities as well as priorities she would...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today reiterated the need for an independent military justice system, citing the mounting evidence that the existing system continues to fail members of the military who are victims of sexual assault and other crimes.
“The longer we wait, the more we will fail the men and women who choose to serve in our country’s...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Orrin Hatch are seeking details from the Social Security Administration and the Justice Department on Social Security benefits given to suspected ex-Nazis. It’s unclear why the federal government allowed millions of dollars to flow to these individuals, including those who have left the country. Record-keeping...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on the announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency that it will delay finalization of the 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Renewable Volume Obligations (RVO) until 2015.
“The reprieve is mixed news for the farmers and biofuel producers who have responded to the call for more homegrown,...
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee, today made the following comment on Senate passage last night of a House of Representatives-passed bill to amend the federal charter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States to reflect the service of women in the U.S. Armed Forces. The bill was called up for expedited...
Sen. Chuck Grassley today released a response from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to his letter, with Sen. Mark Kirk, on the department’s oversight of billions of dollars of federal Moving to Work program funds given to local housing authorities in Chicago and elsewhere across the country. Grassley is concerned that HUD appears to be...
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said today that a bill reauthorizing for five years the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act, more broadly known as STELA, cleared the Senate last night.
The Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act provides consumers access to distant television content...
More than $44 billion has been recovered through the federal False Claims Act
WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said today that the federal False Claims Law has recovered $5.69 billion in the fiscal year 2014, nearly $3 billion of which was related to lawsuits filed under the qui tam provisions of the...